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AFS Leads Beneficial Reuse of Sand Efforts With New AFS-FIRST Consortium |
In an effort to further promote beneficial reuse of sand in the metalcasting industry, the American Foundry Society (AFS) is announcing a new consortium with Foundry Industry Recycling Starts Today (FIRST). The new organization, which is now called AFS-FIRST, is currently developing a plan to aid the metalcasting industry in recycling 50% of sand used in its facilities by 2015.
Beyond that goal, other organizational purposes include:
- Promotion of the reduction, reuse and recycling of metalcasting industry by-products through education, research and information dissemination;
- Development of educational partnerships with governmental agencies, universities, industry associations and other corporations;
- Conducting and sponsoring research in cooperation with governmental agencies, universities, industry associations and other corporations.
“AFS is proud to work with FIRST on this new consortium,” said Jerry Call, AFS executive vice president. “One of the immediate goals of AFS-FIRST is to develop the necessary tools to help metalcasting facilities increase the amount of sand they recycle annually. In addition, we are working on ways to find more outlets for by-products of metalcasting operations. As things progress, we feel the industry will find itself in a better position to reduce its cost of operations due to recycling sand.”
In addition, AFS will be working on integrating the existing FIRST website from its current domain, which can be located at http://www.foundryrecycling.org/, to www.afsinc.org/first.
For more information, contact Dave Krugman, AFS PR and marketing coordinator, at 800/537-4237 x 286 or
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